50+ Anatole France Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth

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